Some recent passenger train accidents, as compiled by a wire service:

--March 17, 2001. An Amtrak train carrying 210 people from Chicago to California derailed in rural southwest Iowa, killing one passenger and injuring about 90 others.

--Feb. 5, 2001. An Amtrak train collides with a freight train on the same track in Syracuse, N.Y., injuring 61 people.

--Nov. 4, 2000. An Amtrak train derails after hitting a truck near Moorpark, Calif., killing the truck driver and injuring about 30 people on the train.

--March 15, 2000. An Amtrak train derailed alongside a cornfield near Carbondale, Kan., injuring 29 passengers.

--Sept. 20, 1999. An Amtrak train rear-ended a freight train in a rail yard in Cumberland, Md., injuring 37 people.

--March 15, 1999. An Amtrak train collided with a truck and derailed near Bourbonnais, Ill., killing 13 people and injuring more than 100.

--June 18, 1998. A Chicago-bound commuter train slammed into a tractor-trailer carrying large steel coils in Portage, Ind., hurling one of the coils into a rail car, killing three passengers and injuring four others.